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2) The arsonist
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2014.
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A series of summer house fires exposes deep social faults in the hometown of Frankie Rowley, who makes unsettling discoveries about her aging parents while engaging in an affair with a local journalist.
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Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
4) Beloved
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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Random House Audio
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p2010
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6 CDs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Between hilarious commentaries on American culture, comedian Adam Carolla offers insight into his own life--including his friendship with Jimmy Kimmel and the trials of raising kids.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
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Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p1991
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3 CDs (3 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Carey rides west: Life on an Ohio farm couldn't hold young Bill Carey. He wanted the adventure he knew waited in the territories to the west. He'd drifted into the outlaw life, and now he found himself holed up on a small farm near the lair of Tabat Ryerson. Ryerson, the man who'd introduced him to cattle rustling and bank robbery, a cold-blooded killer. On a remote little farm, Carey's caught between both sides of the law, and he finds a reason...
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"Colonel de Luce, in desperate need of funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company. They will be shooting a movie over the Christmas holidays, filming scenes in the stately manse with a famous and reclusive star. She is widely despised, so it is to no one's surprise when she turns up murdered, strangled by a length of film from her own movies! With the snow raging outside and Buckshaw locked in, the house is full of suspects....
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Songs of the seraphim volume 1
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A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
12) Hondo
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Two men. One woman. A land that demanded courage--or death... He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior...
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Dublin saga volume 2
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
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8 CDs (ca. 9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
14) Bringing up bébé
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Random House Audio
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p2012
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8 CDs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she soon realizes that motherhood is a completely different experience in France.
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"What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? That question has consumed historians, archeologists, and amateur sleuths for four hundred years. In The Secret Token, Andrew Lawler sets out on a quest to determine the fate of the settlers, finding fresh leads as he encounters a host of characters obsessed with resolving the enigma. In the course of his journey, Lawler examines how the Lost Colony came to haunt our national consciousness."--Amazon.com....
17) The quants
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
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5 CDs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Profiles a group of math whizzes who managed to employ their skills on Wall Street to reap huge profits.
18) Red Hook Road
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Random House, Inc
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2010
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12 CDs (14 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Over the course of four summers, two families, the Tetherlys and the Copakens, endure countless bouts of tragedy, only to find redemption in the most unlikely of places.
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Underworld U.S.A. trilogy volume 3
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Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. A stand-alone sequel to The Cold Six Thousand.
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
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11 sound discs (13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Amina Mazid is 24 when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for George Stillman, the husband who met and wooed her online. It's a 21st century romance that echoes ancient traditions. And though George falls for Amina because she is 'straightforward' and doesn't 'play games,' each is hiding something from the other that they'll have to work past if their marriage is going to work.